Fall Group Study Starts on 9/13
[News from MUMC] Fall Group Study Join us for the 6-week group study in person or on Zoom in September and October! Focus: “Transforming Evangelism: The Wesleyan Way of Sharing Faith” by Henry H. Knight III and F. Douglas Powe Jr. When: Wednesdays at 7 pm & Thursdays at 10:30 am (September 13 to October 24, [...]
Confirmation Sunday on 9/15
[News from MUMC] Confirmation Sunday Please join us on Confirmation Sunday, September 15, as we welcome and embrace 5 newly confirmed disciples of Jesus Christ - Alexa Hunter, Ella Ross, Daniel Slone, Makayla Tardiff, and Robert Tardiff - into the life of faith at Memorial and The United Methodist Church. We look forward to their sharing their [...]
Sumgmu’s Monthly Message, September 2024
Sumgmu's Monthly Message, September 2024 I am so thankful to celebrate confirmation on September 15th. And I am so proud of the five candidates: Alexa Hunter, Ella Ross, Daniel Slone, Makayla Tardiff, and Robert Tardiff. During the past year they have studied at the 13-session confirmation classes, spent at least 30 church service hours, and passed the individual [...]
Sumgmu’s Monthly Message, August 2024
Sumgmu's Monthly Message, August 2024 Our Lay Delegate, Diane Hornaday, and I attended the New York Annual Conference in June. We had six newly ordained pastors this year: five females and one male, four African American s and two Korean Americans. It is interesting that the majority of retirees have been white males during the past 30 years, while [...]
2024 The Northeastern Jurisdiction Reconfigures Episcopal Areas
[News from NYAC Communications on July 18, 2024] 2024 The Northeastern Jurisdiction Reconfigures Episcopal Areas The 2024 Northeastern Jurisdictional (NEJ) Conference ended last Friday, July 12, with the announcement of six new reconfigured Episcopal Areas and the assigning of bishops to supervise those areas. The new six new episcopal areas are: Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware Eastern Pennsylvania and [...]
Sumgmu’s Monthly Message, July 2024
Sumgmu's Monthly Message, July 2024 Our Lay Delegate, Diane Hornaday, and I attended the New York Annual Conference sessions last month. On the first day, when I heard the General Conference delegation report, I felt that it was the time to move on. Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton shared that there had been the attitudes of anti-bishop, anti-district superintendent, anti-pastor, [...]
